Production-Ready AI Engineer: Build & Scale AI Agents

IFS; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401K with company contribution

Tuition assistance

Job summary

IFS in Itasca, Illinois, is seeking an AI Engineer with a builder’s mindset to develop AI agents and workflows for IFS Nexus Black. You will rapidly turn customer problems into working prototypes and scale these into reliable products.

This role involves collaboration across the stack including prompting, backend services, and customer interaction. With a salary range of $90,000 to $100,000 plus bonus, IFS offers flexible paid time off and comprehensive insurance benefits.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years as a software/AI engineer, with product experience in startup-like environments.
• Ability to build production services and integrate with external systems/APIs.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and observability for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype AI agents and guided workflows for customer problems.
• Design and implement cloud-native backend services.
• Contribute to developer experience with reusable agents and internal documentation.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLM systems production

Evaluation techniques for AI

Vector databases

Backend services

Excellent communication

Job description

IFS in Itasca, Illinois, is seeking an AI Engineer with a builder’s mindset to develop AI agents and workflows for IFS Nexus Black. You will rapidly turn customer problems into working prototypes and scale these into reliable products.

This role involves collaboration across the stack including prompting, backend services, and customer interaction. With a salary range of $90,000 to $100,000 plus bonus, IFS offers flexible paid time off and comprehensive insurance benefits.